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July 11, 2006

Beginning and Advanced Flash Tutorials

Using Flash, you can develop and create rich multimedia web content sites with ease. Flash is a vector-based program, which means that the graphical information is stored in the form of mathematical formulae rather than pixel tables, so Flash files take up less space compared to animated graphic files. In addition to animations, Flash can be used to create complex multimedia content with interactivity, sound, drop down or scrolling menus, animated buttons, custom animated cursors and even games

Webdevelopersnotes.com offers the following excellent Flash tutorials to help you learn this important web development application. This site also offers some great advanced Flash tutorials, located below.

Flash Tutorials

The series of lessons in this tutorial guide you through the following features and concepts of Flash:

Drawing tools.
Frames, Layers and the Stage.
Movie properties.
Basic controls and commands available in the Flash menu.
Embedding Flash in HTML pages.
Symbols and why they are required.
Creating and modifying symbols.
Inspectors.

Here are the Flash tutorial pages:

Advanced Flash Tutorials

These Flash tutorials will help you learn how to make things move around using Flash and to bring interactivity to Flash movies. User interactivity is created by capturing user actions, such as mouse movement, clicking with the mouse button, or keyboard input. The information generated through these actions, or events, is passed to the Flash Event Handlers. Then complex interactivity is developed by ActionScript, which is Flash’s simple programming language. Animation and interactivity can be accomplished only with symbols. Symbols, you will recall can be of three types, graphic, button or movie. Each of the following lessons in these advanced Flash tutorials explains how to make a small animated or interactive movie. These movies can then serve as building blocks to more complex movies.